If you dont feel good about yourself, you have to fix it. Theres no other way around it. You cant raise confident kids, have a healthy relationship, or get satisfaction from your job if you dont. This comes from someone who didnt, for most of her life, feel worthwhile. Many books come from the perspective of an expert, someone who already has a healthy sense of self-worth, which I believe immediately sets up an alienating perspective between them and us, those who know and the rest of us who struggle with this issue. They assume they know better. They may think they know better, and have a worthwhile plan, but we know what it is really like, we have experienced and not just judged our self-defeating behavior.
We all have varying degrees of self-doubt. A person can be wildly successful in their life, and still have deep-seated feelings of worthlessness. There is a fear of discovery that others will come to see whats behind the curtain in Oz. So we strive to accomplish more and more, climb to greater heights, yet its never enough. You may try to hide it, this low sense of self-worth, but like the alcoholic who wants to keep his drinking a secret, but staggers nonetheless,...